Timezone Information Missing in pytz?

Question

I\'m having a very weird problem with Python\'s pytz: it seems to have an incomplete catalog of timezones on my system (MacOS X 10.8.5, system Python 2.7.5).

Answer 1

I had a similar exception UnknownTimeZoneError: Can not find any timezone configuration when i tried to run my app inside a docker container with the latest ubuntu images. It turned out that tzdata was missing. Installing tzdata package fixed it:

apt-get install -y tzdata

# Maybe you will need to reconfigure the timezone as well:
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

(Use sudo if you have to)